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Life Quotes


"I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore."


"The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency."


"Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids."


"One half of my life has put the other half in the grave."


"We're in a free fall into the future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast. And always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. But all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective . . . Joyfully participate in the sorrows of the world and everything changes."


"Oh, everything is fun when I'm around. Hercules's knees knocked into the back of my seat as he leaned back. "This one time, when I was ordered by the gods to . . .I could only think of three words.Fuck. My. Life."You should drive, because I'm going to end it all. Once we're on the freeway, I'm going to jump out of this vehicle and throw myself in front of a Mack truck.Josie's laugh cut off her yawn. "That's a little excessive.Adjusting the sunglasses I'd stolen from Aiden yesterday morning, I smirked. "I do not think anything is excessive when it comes to him."But that won't even kill you.I sighed. "Yeah, but I'm pretty sure it'll knock me unconscious for the time being."


"There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine."


"So I don't really focus too much on that, and I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself."


"If you are generous in your relationships you will receive as much as you give."


"Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash."


"No, no, it was the relationships. That was that group. People believed that Rob and Laura were really married in real life. You know, a lot of people believed that."



"Joining Yes was one of those stupid things that you do sometimes. It was one of the two or three times in my life that I've done something that I knew was wrong."


"No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life."



"The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live."



"There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it."


"Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest."


"A man has only so much life, and must diversify his efforts according to his values."


"It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life."


"I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it scared me too, that I might end up as a mother of 3 working in a psychiatrist's office, or renting surfboards...I guess I saw their lives as failed somehow, absent of the Big Win...What is fate was an inherited trait? What if luck came through the genetic line, and the ability to 'succeed' at your chosen 'direction' was handed down, just like the family china? Maybe I was destined to be a weed too."


"My chips are all cashed out. There's nothing to lose. Or maybe I've already lost it and found it, and whatever else there might be to lose..."


"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down."



"Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere."


"Life should not be reduced to a to do list."


"People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life."
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